Evangelina Miller:
"Wanna play a game?" He asks meeting my eyes again
"Uh, sure" I answer, skeptically
"It's nothing 'weird' it's just 20 questions" he clarifies
"Oh, okay then" I smile at him, glancing down to his lips
He waits a moment then tells me to go first.
"What's your favourite song?"
"I don't really have one, I just listen to my playlist on shuffle" he shrugs "you?"
"It's kind of embarrassing but I have two, one is Risk by Deftones and Chamber Of Reflection by Mac DeMarco" I softly smile
"You listen to Deftones?" He asks
"Is that one of your questions?"
"Is that one of yours" he asks, and just as I'm about to open my mouth and continue this chain he places a finger on my lips
"Yes, Do you listen to Deftones is one of my questions. So, do you?" He quickly says
"Yeah, I love Deftones, mom used to- never mind" I cut myself off
"What's your favourite book? If you read that is." I ask
"Honestly, I used to read a lot, like in high-school, but I haven't had the time recently, but back then it was The Outsiders." He says
"Can I ask you a.." he pauses finding his words "deeper, question?"
"Sure, I'll try to answer it"
"Why do you do it?"
"Do what?" I ask knowing exactly what he's talking about.
"treat yourself badly"
"Do you want me to be honest?" I ask to which he nods, "I- I feel like I don't deserve to..feel."
"Feel?"
"Sometimes when I get overly happy, or sad, I feel undeserving of them." I say fiddling with my rings not meeting his eyes
He holds my hand, slightly brushing his thumb over my knuckle
"How'd this happen?" He asks placing a kiss on my knuckles again
"nothing overly important" I chuckle thinking back on those memories
"What do you mean?"
Flashback:
"Evangelina, this is your new trainer, you're too weak to go out of missions as of now, so you will follow his every direction without question. Then you will be tough enough to fight." My father explains
"Okay father." I mumble looking at the man
"Follow me." My trainer, Clint grunts out
I follow behind him, we walk out to the side of the training building and he tells me the rules of this exercise
"You answer questions about our competitors, everyone you get wrong, you punch the wall."
He starts asking me questions about mafias I've never heard of before, and I get pretty much all got of them wrong. I sat there for 30 minutes punching the wall.
End flashback.
"He was my trainer until I came here" I finish my story up realizing I've spent too much time talking
"That's horrible. You shouldn't have been trained that way. That's not even training, that's abuse." He points out, fuming "where is Clint now?"
"Pft I don't know, out of my life, that's all I care about."
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The Fifth Letter
Romance"Call me when you need me, call me when you want me, I don't care I'll be there" Evangelina Miller writes 4 letters at the age of 13, each one about things she wants to happen in her future, one of them being marriage. Her mom finds that letter and...
